Monsoon Hadrons 2026

22 Jun 2026, 09:00 → 26 Jun 2026, 17:30 Asia/Kolkata

AG 69, AG 80 (TIFR Mumbai)

Nilmani Mathur (TIFR Mumbai), M. Padmanath (IMSc Chennai), Navdeep Singh Dhindsa (TIFR Mumbai), Debsubhra Chakraborty (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai)

Monsoon Hadrons 2026 is a one-week workshop to be held at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, from June 22-26,2026. The workshop is co-organized by the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai and the Institute of Mathematical Sciences Chennai. The workshop will focus on contemporary developments in hadron spectroscopy, bringing together a broad range of approaches including lattice QCD, phenomenology, effective field theory modeling, and emerging quantum computing techniques, with an emphasis on the interplay between these methods in understanding hadronic structure and interactions. A key objective of the workshop is to facilitate discussions on current research directions within the Indian community, while also identifying important open problems and future avenues of investigation in the field. The theme of the workshop is to provide PhD students and early-career researchers with a platform to engage in meaningful and stimulating discussions with experts, fostering collaboration and exchange of ideas. In addition, the program will include special invited online lectures by leading researchers from around the world, covering closely related topics and offering broader insights into ongoing advances in the field.

 

Special Topical Invited Speakers:

• Vladimir Braun (University of Regensburg):
  Light-Cone Distribution Amplitudes: Concepts, Motivation, and Methods

• Feng Kun Guo (ITP Peking):
  Phenomenology of exotic hadrons

• Nils Huesken (University of Mainz):
  Exotic hadrons - an experimental introduction

• Fernando Romero Lopez (University of Bern):
  Hadronic Resonances from Lattice QCD: Beyond Elastic Two-Hadron Scattering

• Yan Lyu (RIKEN):
  Wavefunction-based operator optimization for two-hadron systems in lattice QCD

• Stefan Meinel (University of Arizona):
  Testing the Standard Model with bottom-hadron semileptonic decays

• Srijit Paul (Cyprus Institute):
  Heavy Hadron Weak Decays into multi-hadron final states from lattice QCD 

 

Poster

Monday, 22 June

1 Opening Remarks

2 Phenomenology of exotic hadrons

Speaker: Feng Kun Guo (ITP Peking)

MonSoons2026_Guo.pdf

10:45 Tea Break

3 XYZ Exotics: their nature and properties from NRQCD perspective

Speaker: Abhishek Mohapatra (PRL Ahmedabad)

Monsoon-Hadron-2026-Abhishek.pdf

4 Charm and bottom exotics from lattice QCD

Speaker: M. Padmanath (The Institute of Mathematical Sciences Chennai)

Padmanath_MonsoonHadrons_June2026

12:45 Lunch Break

5 Exotic hadrons - an experimental introduction

Speaker: Nils Huesken (University of Mainz)

15:45 Tea Break

6 Lattice Study of Elastic DD* Scattering

Speaker: Tanishk Shrimal (IMSc Chennai)

7 Discussion on Exotics

Tuesday, 23 June

8 Quark Mass Dependence of Nuclear Interaction from Lattice QCD

Speaker: Debsubhra Chakraborty (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai)

9 Charm-strange tetraquark from lattice QCD

Speaker: Bhabani Sankar Tripathy (IMSc Chennai)

10:45 Tea Break

10 A Self-Consistent Covariant Light-Front Framework for Heavy-Flavor Weak Transitions

Speaker: Rohit Dhir (SRMIST Chennai)

11 Flash discussion

12:45 Lunch Break

12 Hadronic Resonances from Lattice QCD: Beyond Elastic Two-Hadron Scattering

Speaker: Fernando Romero Lopez (University of Bern)

slides_fernando_monsoon_hadrons

15:45 Tea Break

13 Heavy Hadron Weak Decays into multi-hadron final states from lattice QCD

Speaker: Srijit Paul (Cyprus Institute)

14 Discussion on Lattice Spectroscopy

15 Testing the Standard Model with bottom-hadron semileptonic decays

Speaker: Stefan Meinel (University of Arizona)

Monsoon_Hadrons_Meinel.pdf

Wednesday, 24 June

16 Beyond Deterministic Fits: A Bayesian Exploration of Bc Spectroscopy

Speaker: Christas Mony (SRM IST Chennai)

20260624_Mony_TIFR_BayesianBc.pdf

17 QCD Sum Rules and Their Applications to Hadron Spectroscopy and Decays

Speaker: Manakkumar Parmar (SVNIT)

10:45 Tea Break

18 Implementation and Optimization of the HHL Quantum Algorithm

Speaker: Dhruv Sood (TIFR Mumbai)

19 Variational Quantum Simulation of the Hubbard Model using a Majorana-based Fermion-to-Qubit Mapping

Speaker: Ashutosh Tripathy (TIFR Mumbai)

20 Discussion on Quantum Computing

12:45 Lunch Break

21 An efficient Wavelet-based Hamiltonian Formulation of Quantum field theories using flow-equations

Speaker: Mrinmoy Basak (TIFR Mumbai)

22 Discussion on Quantum Computing

15:45 Tea Break

23 Discussion on Lattice and Non-lattice Spectroscopy

24 Workshop Dinner

Thursday, 25 June

25 Wavefunction-based operator optimization for two-hadron systems in lattice QCD

Speaker: Yan Lyu (RIKEN)

10:45 Tea Break

26 Precision studies of heavy baryons

Speaker: Archana Radhakrishnan (IISc Bengaluru)

27 Exploring Hadron Physics on an Ultrafine Lattice

Speaker: Navdeep Singh Dhindsa (TIFR Mumbai)

28 Discussion on Hadron Structure Observables

12:45 Lunch Break

29 Discussions on hadron decays and structure

15:45 Tea Break

30 Discussion on Hadron Structure Observables

Friday, 26 June

31 Discussion

11:00 Tea Break

32 Light-Cone Distribution Amplitudes: Concepts, Motivation, and Methods

Speaker: Vladimir Braun (University of Regensburg)

12:45 Lunch Break

33 Workshop summary, Outlook and Vote of Thanks

Speakers: Nilmani Mathur (TIFR), M. Padmanath (The Institute of Mathematical Sciences Chennai)

15:45 Tea Break